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Trade 05

The Kitchen

Section 05 of eight. Two hundred plates, one service. Three entries: two hundred plates, one service, holding and regenerating and the kitchen you are given.

Two cooks plating at speed in a service kitchen
Fig. 01The pass runs to the room's clock rather than the kitchen's, timed backwards from the last plate still worth eating.Photo: Rene Terp / Pexels

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  • Chefs plate steaks with asparagus and greens on stacked white plates in a kitchen

    Two hundred plates, one service

    Everything is cooked to land within a few minutes for the whole room, which rules out most of what a restaurant kitchen would do.

    Entry 5.1 · A full entry
  • Server trays of rice, mashed potatoes and meat as a hand fills a takeout container

    Holding and regenerating

    Cooked ahead, held cold, brought back — and the dishes that survive that are a short list.

    Entry 5.2 · A full entry
  • A vendor leans on the counter of a food truck beside a blue pop-up tent

    The kitchen you are given

    Often a marquee tent with no water and one power supply.

    Entry 5.3 · A short entry

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